Music Mondays: Catalyst Quartet & Karen Slack

The “invariably energetic and finely burnished” Catalyst Quartet (N Y Times) is this season’s Quartet in Residence at the Metropolitan Museum of Art. Joining them in a new collaboration is “feisty, rich-voiced” soprano Karen Slack (N Y Times), featured at the Metropolitan Opera in Gershwin’s Porgy and Bess. Their program includes African American spirituals, Florence Price’s Piano Quintet in E Minor (with Artistic Director, Aaron Wunsch) and a powerful new setting of Langston Hughes’s poem, Kids Who Die, for soprano, piano, and string quartet.